Before taking his position at the Minneapolis Fed and his speechwriting role in University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler’s office, Weiner was an award-winning reporter and writer based in St. Paul, Minnesota. He specialized in sports business, off-the-field sports issues, and Minnesota politics. Weiner covered every Winter and Summer Olympics between 1984 and 2010.

Weiner is the co-author of the forthcoming book, Professor Berman: The Last Lecture of Minnesota’s Greatest Public Historian, which is the memoir of the late University of Minnesota scholar Hy Berman. It will be published in the fall of 2019.

In 2009, he helped author “College Sports 101,” a primer about big-time intercollegiate athletics finances, for the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.

In 2008-09, he covered the Al Franken-Norm Coleman U.S. Senate recount for MinnPost. This opened a new area of reporting and expertise for Weiner, who was honored with the Frank Premack Award, Minnesota’s most prestigious journalism recognition.